Fascist Party of Serbia

The Fascist Party of Serbia was a fascist political party in the Kingdom of Serbia that was active from 1905 to 1918. The Fascist Party was founded by a core of nationalist intellectuals, businessmen, and military officers who were overly supportive of war against the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary in order to acquire the lands necessary to form the South Slavic superstate of Yugoslavia. The Fascist Party held Orthodox Christianity as its state religion, and it supported Serb nationalism over the rights of minority groups such as Bosniaks, Croats, Slovenes, Turks, Albanians, and Greeks. The Fascist Party would gain strength during World War I, advocating armed resistance against the invading armies of Austria-Hungary and the German Empire, but it dissolved with the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the war's end.